Charter

GREENMEADOWS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Piki ki te rangi - Reach for the sky

 Mission Statement

  Greenmeadows School seeks to provide a learning community that empowers all to recognise and optimize their educational and personal potential

 

School Vision 

As a school, Greenmeadows aims to be the school of choice for its community: 

  • A school with its eye on the future, developing young people who strive to be connected, confident, actively involved lifelong learners. 
  • A school that honours the Treaty of Waitangi and the place of the tangata whenua.
  • A school that values and celebrates the divers cultures and ethnic groups that make up our school community.
  • A school that develops students wairua through the development of key competencies. 

Respect - Cooperation - Perseverance - Tolerance

 

Unique Qualities of Greenmeadows

  • Fosters achievement and success through high quality teaching and learning.
  • Values diversity.
  • Has committed, skilled and supportive staff.
  • Delivers the curriculum through an inquiry approach.
  • Provides access to a wide range of ICT technologies to support student learning.
  • Has a high level of participation in a range of sports.
  • Provides opportunities for students to extend their individual talents.
  • Has recently remodeled facilities which provide an outstanding environment to motivate learning.
  • Fosters independent learners, well prepared for secondary school.
  • Provides opportunities for learning to take place beyond the classroom - camps, trips and activities.

Strategic Goals 2009 - 2011

  • Provide a high quality education through the delivery of a balanced curriculum that promotes high levels of student performance and achievement.
  • Nurture individual gifts and talents of students by providing opportunities forthem to participate in a wide range of specialised activities.
  • Enable students to access the wider curriculum by developing literacy and numeracy achievement to meet national norms.
  • Attract and retain high quality employees, encouraging professional growth and high levels of performance.
  • Maintain and enhance positive & meaningful community partnerships.
  • Embed our core school values in everything we do.
  • To have a culture which promotes pride in our school and safeguards the physical and emotional well-being of staff and students.
  • To create & maintain contemporary facilities and an environment which promotes learning in the 21st century.
  • Provide equitable opportunities for students to confidently use ICT to access and provide information and to communicate with others.